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What is a Clinical Trauma Professional?

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​Based on 25 years of break-through research, this trauma competency training has revolutionised the way therapists work with trauma survivors and dramatically improve their treatment outcomes.

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Internationally renowned trauma experts Eric Gentry, Ph.D., D.A.A.E.T.S., and Robert Rhoton, PsyD, LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S., has trained me step by step through comprehensive training modules:

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  • The History and Evolution of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

  • Systemic traumatic stress theory and development of the field

  • Symptoms of traumatic stress

  • Evidence-based interventions and emerging treatment trends

  • Instruments to assess traumatic stress

  • The Tri-Phasic trauma treatment model

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  • The 10 Core Competencies of Trauma, PTSD, Grief & Loss

  • Biochemical, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that produce anxiety & traumatic stress

  • Adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors

  • The biochemical, affective, and cognitive impacts of traumatic stress

  • Traumatic stress over time, across and within developmental stages

  • The role of traumatic stress in clinical disorders, such as personality disorders, dissociative identity disorder and more

  • Conceptualizing a framework of healing for survivors of traumatic stress

  • Traumatic stress across the continuum of systemic levels

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  • Assessment of Traumatic Stress Disorders

  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA & DSM-5® changes

  • ACE & developmental trauma

  • Diagnosing PTSD with the PCL-5

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  • Evidence-Based Trauma Treatments & Interventions

  • Relaxation/Self-regulation

  • Grounding

  • Containment

  • Writing/journaling

  • Drawing art

  • Healing metaphors

  • Transitional objects

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  • Treatment Interventions: Demonstrations, Exercises & Application

  • Narrative Exposure Therapy Technique

  • Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

  • Bilateral Stimulation

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  • More on Effective Treatment Intervention

  • Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)

  • EMDR & Bilateral Stimulation

  • Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

  • Sensorimotor

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  • Desensitization, Integration & Closure

  • Trauma memory processing

  • Graphic timeline

  • Narratives

  • Closure: lessons learned

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  • Theories of Traumatic Stress, Loss and Grief & Disorders

  • Information processing model

  • Psychosocial model

  • Contemporary thoughts

  • Bereavement and adjustment disorders

  • Normal and complicated bereavement

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